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Preface In 1952, I was deeply impressed by Edward Steichen's photo exhibition held in Tokyo, and made up my mind to be a photographer. "To take photographs means to recognize both the
fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms
that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's hearth
on the same axis." 5 years ago when I was asked to take a series of photographs in Eihei-ji and Souji-ji by the Soto Sect of Buddhism, I decided to use a digital camera instead of traditional analogue cameras. In the grey of the morning, a monk runs around the cloister of the temple while ringing a small bell in his hand to wake up other monks. For the traditional cameras, it is too dark to obtain his figure without making an electronic flash, which spoils the solemnity of the service. To my surprise, the digital camera, which I brought to the temple along with a Macintosh Power Book, managed to take a picture of him quite clearly. This experience told me that, though the fundamentals of photography don't change, the technology is changing revolutionarily.
Tomiyama Haruo
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"ZEN"
In the year 2002, we commemorated the 750th anniversary of Dougen Zenji's death. Dougen Zenji, the founder of the Soto Sect of Zen, is one of the greatest Zen monks in the Medieval period in Japan. The Zen had strong influence on our mental structure and still today it forms a basis of our way of thinking...(more) |
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